What does game playing become after the innocence of childhood imagination? We are often confronted with playing games subconsciously as the controller or the player whereby we have our own rules, routines and rituals. A number of international artists exhibit their work at Atelier 35, Bucharest, Romania to visually explore an avenue of mind games, strategy and philosophical investigations.
Curated by Diana Ali.

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Concept

Game is defined as adopting goals, rules, challenges and interactions but as the philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein claims, games can be a misconstrued meaning of language and the mind.

Because we misunderstand language we use indirect communication, thought experiments and mind games to get a sense of one-upmanship to empower or demoralize. What extremes can we go to for feeling recognition, wanting, acceptance and achievement?

Featured artists explore the work ethic of game playing considering tactics, strategy and philosophical investigations as well as aesthetic work which deals with layout, intrigue and an appeal to take part. The exhibition includes, video, film, photography, installation, interventions, painting and drawing.

Allen Coombs.

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A number of times each day we have only a moment to present ourselves to the world. Using whatever languages we have, we condense our vision and hope our reader understands enough to translate our intent.

Subjects are asked to described themselves or others in a number of words dictated by the subjects age, their responses their responses are then transcribed.

About the Curator

Diana Ali is a visual artist, independent curator, lecturer and workshop leader. She has exhibited in group shows in London, Sheffield, Manchester and solo at the Air- space Gallery, Hanley. Internationally she has shown work as part of the Roaming Biennial in Tehran, Other Asia’s exhibition ReDo Pakistan in Karachi, Pakistan, the Crafts Fair in San Francisco and at the Library Artspace in Melbourne, Australia. Her practice involves drawing, installation and text work. She is interested in correspondence, networking and connectivity and researches the use of collaboration through her curatorial projects. Her current practice is an extension of this research and sees curating as a research methodology involving instructional processes and exchanges. To date she has curated ten exhibitions including Subversive Correspondence featuring fifty artists in London and Bristol and & Dialogues: A Fake Romance in Swansea with thirty artists. Internationally she has curated A State of Un-Play at Atelier35 in Romania, Engagement & Entrapment, Israel, Cyprus, South Korea extending her query of responses from the local to the global.